Vices Quotes - Page 35

• Our God is a God of love. He waits with open arms, and the unfolding of His merciful plan of salvation is not only therefore the mark of divine power but also the mark of God's relentless, redeeming love. It is a point well worth pondering because, among other reasons, it will help us to understand better why God, through the prophets, denounces sin and corruption in such scalding terms. He loves all of us, His spirit sons and daughters, but hates our vices. His denunciation of those vices may, if we are not careful, seem to obscure the enormous and perfect love He has for us.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Love, Daughter, Hate

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• In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

  Christopher Wren

  Respect, Confusion, Confusing

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• A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.

  St. Jerome

  Heart, Idols, Catholicism

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• We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.

  James Hillman

  Inspirational, Goal, Inferiority

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• It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.

  E. M. Forster

  Thinking, Squares, Heaven

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.28, Xist Publishing

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• The amount of electricity that has been saved in spite of Vice President Cheney saying that efficiency is only a moral virtue ... and that you need increased supply like ANWR-is two ANWRs worth of energy.

  Stephen Schneider

  Two, President, Anwr

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• US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government.

  Ignacio Chapela

  Government, Environment, Academic

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• There's never been A day in the last four years I've been proud to be his Vice President. Not a single day.

  Joe Biden

  Stupid, Years, President

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• Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Morality, Virtue

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.214, Modern Library

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• Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?

  George Washington

  Impossible, Human Nature, Virtue

  George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.9

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• I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Hate, People

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• A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

  Horace Mann

  Love, Children, Growing Up

  "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

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• So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Greed, Gentlemanly

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 1, st. 216

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• The job of a manager is to support his or her staff, not vice versa, and that begins by being among them.

  William Redington Hewlett

  Inspiring, Jobs, Support

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• I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fear, Children, Men

  "True at First Light". Book by Ernest Hemingway, ch. 17, 1999.

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• Michelle, I love you. The other night, I think the entire country saw just how lucky I am. Malia and Sasha, you make me so proud…but don't get any ideas, you're still going to class tomorrow. And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Morning, Love You

  Barack Obama's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, abcnews.go.com. September 6, 2012.

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• A dollar saved is a dollar earned but seldom vice versa.

  Evan Esar

  Dollars, Cynicism, Vice Versa

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• Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Nature, Passion, May

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.36, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest swell, but he simply cannot buy the right things.

  William James

  War, Years, Gentleman

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• I never did drugs and I can't really drink because I have zero tolerance for alcohol, so my vice became women. I was never faithful to most of them.

  Scott Baio

  Zero, Alcohol, Drug

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.

  Bradley Whitford

  Christmas, Party, Emotional

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• Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice President Maduro.

  Sean Penn

  President, Venezuela, Revolution

  "Hollywood adulation of Venezuela’s socialist government proven wrong -- again" By Elizabeth Llorente, www.foxnews.com. April 24, 2017.

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• I don’t think that actors are necessarily any more uncomfortable in their skin than anyone else. I suppose I feel more comfortable in my skin now, but you’re always playing a character, aren’t you? You tell different versions of yourself to different people and vice versa. Here, or in the photo shoot or wherever, it’s a representation of you. It’s not you-you. That’s how you get through it.

  Ben Whishaw

  Character, Thinking, People

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• Right now, Im very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.

  Johnny Galecki

  Cereal, Healthy, Breakfast

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• Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

  Ethel Waters

  Mom, Drinking, Childhood

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